Journal shows its support for a true local business. Go bleep yourself here with much more as the President of the UFC thats. Why? I love you because you dont, I love you because you dont hold back always hard hitting all right by the way. What a card this weekend you didnt, let a single person off during this entire pandemic. You created it and tell everybody your thought process route. This was always my thought process. Theres, always a way to figure things out. No is never the answer and you just have to be willing to work hard, spend the money and theres going to be some trial and error, but we knew that we could do it explain how fight Ilan came around, because I thought that was a genius idea

and I kept the sport going and kept your employees employed. Tell us how you did that lets start with Florida. First of all, here in the United States, we needed to be able to put on fights. We have our own arena here in LAS Vegas, but we couldnt use it in our own home town. So we to go in our own home town, so we to go to Florida and the mayor in Jacksonville, open the doors to us and obviously Governor Desantis was incredible. You have to have government officials that you can work with and the Florida state Athletic that was willing to work with us and figure out ways, so the show could go on once we got that figured out putting on shows. This is a global sport running in international business. So we had to figure out. How could we get people in from all over the world from all these different countries, these fighters, and we

started talking about islands and places where we could build a real bubble and ive got a great relationship with the royal family for over twelve years. We started talking to them and we literally built the best bubble on earth. When we went to fight island in Abu Dhabi, I want to talk about the growth of UFC over the years and youre a big part of its success from the get go. But I want to talk about it through this idea, so you watch Lebron James. What he had said last week and you look at the ratings of the finals in the NBA five point: six million viewers is a disaster. Just a few years ago, fifty million people watching the Oscars every year. You look at what happened in Georgia, with major League baseball when they had far more accessible voting laws than Joe Bidens State of Delaware, not trying to drag you into

politics, but major League Baseball, Colin Kaepernick NFL, the Braun with the NBA. If you look around the stadium, I dont care what this board is. I see people of all backgrounds, all races all coming together, because they love and have to share a passion for that sport right right. One of the things that I really tried to do through this whole thing is stay out of politics. When people tune in to watch sports, they dont want to hear that they dont want to hear what your opinions are or who youre voting for what youre doing. They want to get away from everything in their life and they want to focus on two three four hours. However long the sport is, when you turned it on, we never talked about covid or politics, and obviously there are certain fighters, male and

female, who have their own religious beliefs and political beliefs. We dont muzzle anybody either. So if somebody comes down to the press conference- and they want to talk about this- its their God given right to do it, we dont muzzle anybody, but we keep politics out of the sport. If you want to listen to that stuff turn on any other station, you will hear all of that stuff. You want to hear when you tune into UFC, you are there to see fights. Do you see the growth of the UFC and you look at precipitous decline in a lot of other sports because of local politics cancel culture? Do you see a direct correlation? It would be hard to say no. They dont go hand in hand. I truly do believe. I just put on an event the first major

sport to have an indoor live event at full capacity. During this pandemic we had fifteen thousand two hundred and fifty nine fans there and if you didnt want to wear a mask, you dont have to everybody. Was there the crowd was explosive all night, it was a great show. We broke the arena record and what that tells me, I sold out Jacksonville going to Houston next fifty thousand feet sold out and under five minutes, total for all three people are done. People are done, they are done being told of where they can go, what they can do ready to get back out there and start enjoying their life again. Everybody knows everyone has heard about the masks, Uma social distancing. Everyone knows there are three vaccines out there and available. If people and id advise you to consult with your doctor and do a lot of research on your own,

they know the vaccines are available. No Americans are going to live free. We have to live up to that motto when it cant just be words, and I wrote a book live free or die. Some Americans now are informed and voting by buying out fifty thousand seats in five minutes. By the way, I want to pay for my tickets, but if you know anybody selling ive got you whatever you need. Ive got you im, not taking anything for free, I promise, but seriously. Everybody knows they know and they showed up in droves. It speaks volumes ill. Give you the last word. I agree. I told you the three states sold out in all three events in the next thing that opens is looking like Arizona might work, and whoever comes after that im coming to your town going to your arena and we are going

to sell out. That means New York, where I need to get out of id, probably see you when fifteen years, but anyway, congratulations on a great event hopefully can recover from this, and looking forward to watching Dana White is doing better. Thank you. He got up and walked today. Its cant wrap the brain around the gym. Breaking will make a great recovery and it.